Name: John Flannelly
son of William and Mary (née Lang) Flannelly
Born: 30th October 1841 in Doonflin Upper, Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland
Died: 29th April 1894 in Jersey City, New Jersy, U.S.A. Buried at Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City.
Enlisted: 9th August 1861 and mustered in on 24th August 1861 at Camp Olden, Trenton, New Jersey
Discharged: Mustered out on 7th September 1864
Unit(s): Company C, 6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
Commanding Officer / General: Gen. Joseph Hooker
Unit Battle History: Siege of Yorktown; Battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Oak Grove, Savage Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Kettle Run, Groveton, Bull Run, Chantilly, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania; Siege of Petersburg.
Notes: (if any)
Physical description: 5' 10" tall, 150 pounds (at the time of his pension application physical exam at age 50), occupation: marble polisher (later a porter)
Rank: Enlisted as Private; discharged as Private
Wounds: Injured or fell ill at the Battle of Williamsburg and then hospitalized in Williamsburg, VA
Pension info: John filed for a pension on 8th August 1891 (Application #1046894; Certificate #784309) and was approved for an "invalid's pension" paying $12 per month due to malarial poisoning, lung and heart disease, chronic dysentery, rheumatism/lumbago, conjunctivitis, blepharitis and an enlarged spleen and liver
Other: Was to receive a $100 enlistment bounty at discharge. Married Delia (Bridget) Hough in 1867 in Jersey City and fathered 8 sons and 2 daughters there between 1868 and 1884; widowed in 1890. His older brother Owen Flannelly served a three-month enlistment from April to July, 1861 in the New Jersey Foot Militia, 2nd Regiment, Company G which was formed when President Lincoln first ordered the formation of troop units to engage the Confederate States of America.
Acknowledgement
Data jointly furnished by Maureen Wlodarczyk of Sayreville, New Jersey (great-great-granddaughter of Private John Flannelly), and by Walter H. Flannery of Hudson, Massachusetts (Flannery Clan researcher).
Sources include NARA microfilm ref. M550 roll 8, and M288 pension records index.